Welcome

Welcome to the Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá. The Consular Section has two main missions:

• to provide a wide range of emergency and routine services to U.S. citizens visiting or residing in Colombia, such as offering help in the event of serious illness or arrest, issuing U.S. passports, registering the births of U.S. citizens in Colombia, and providing assistance to recipients of Social Security and other Federal benefits; and
• to provide immigrant and nonimmigrant visa services to Colombians and citizens of other countries who are in Colombia.

NOTICE – WARNING – NOTICE – WARNING – NOTICE

The only website authorized by the United States Government to complete the Form DS-160 to apply for a U.S. non-immigrant visa is:
https://ceac.state.gov/genniv/

The only website authorized for U.S. visa appointments in Colombia is:
http://colombia.usvisa-info.com/

Please do NOT pay any money or provide any information to any other website. Thank you.

Carrera 45, No. 24B-27
Bogotá, Colombia
Telephone: 275-4900

U.S. Embassy Bogota has launched Online Visa Appointment and Delivery System effective September 28, 2011

The United States Embassy in Bogota is pleased to announce that it has put into operation a new online appointment system designed to make the visa application process faster, simpler and more accessible.

Effective September 28, visa applicants can schedule their visa appointments via a new website or through the assistance of an operator through a new call center. It will no longer be necessary to purchase a PIN.  With our new system, available in both Spanish and English, visitors are now be able to:

• View an easy-to-read calendar format that allows applicants to select a convenient date and time for their non-immigrant visa appointments.
• Reschedule (NIV) appointments or make cancellations.
• Arrange free delivery of passports/visas to more than 20 DHL locations in 9 cities throughout Colombia.

Home delivery is available at an additional charge in some larger cities.  Applicants residing in other areas will need to make arrangements to pick up their passports from one of more than 20 locations in nine principal cities in Colombia.

The system also gives applicants the option to pay the non-immigrant visa application fee by credit card.  Additionally, applicants no longer have to take the extra step and expense of purchasing an appointment pin number as well as organizing passport/visa delivery following the interview. 

The new visa appointment system was designed to make it easier for visitors to the United States to apply for non-immigrant visas.  Because delivery arrangements are made in advance, time spent in the Embassy the day of interview is now shorter.

According to Consul General Raymond R. Baca, “We are thrilled to announce our new appointment system, which has been successfully launched in other countries.  It represents another great partnership with Colombia and I am confident that it will make our visa process more convenient and accessible to applicants."